Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Feldhusen, Stapleton, N. Y. garage mechanic, in his Class C outboard motorboat Miss Staten Island: the sixth annual 132¼ mi. Albany-to-New York race; in 3 hr. 15 min. 22 sec. Weeks beforehand, Feldhusen familiarized himself with the course-over which he had raced four times-by getting a job as deckhand on a river liner. More than half his time allowance-21 min.-was wasted when magneto trouble delayed him at the start. He overtook Cab Walier of Syracuse a mile from the end, finished 100 yards ahead, with severe bruises and cuts on his left...
President Machado's own police were not safe from President Machado's gunmen. Despite denials from frightened neighbors and government officials, U. S. correspondents took enough stock in the battle of the Sixth Police Station to cable full details north: Two armed soldiers swung up in a car, rushed into the building and emerged in a few minutes with three uniformed policemen and two plainclothesmen. Following the honored formula, the five were told to run, were shot in the back. But the plainclothesmen had not been sufficiently searched. They returned the fire. Before they too fell, the soldiers...
Died. Bernard ("Buddy") Hanford. 22, No. 6 U. S. jockey in 1932 (146 winners); of a multiple skull fracture, after a stumbling mount (Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark's Apprehensive) threw him under the hoofs of the field in the sixth race at Baltimore's Pimlico track...
Died. David Alec Wilson, 69, biographer, Carlyle authority; in Edinburgh. He worked nearly 25 years on a definitive biography of Thomas Carlyle, finished five fat volumes, started a sixth. A nephew will complete...
...Sixth Season- As she has done every year since 1928, the sturdy Graf Zeppelin cast off last week from Friedrichshafen with a load of passengers, headed over the Atlantic. She was bound via Spain for Rio de Janeiro, on a monthly schedule to be maintained until August when service may be stepped up to twice-a-month. Fares are down...